if you kick good out of the throne of your spirit,, another egregore appears to take his place choose your egregore wisely is what im saying none of us are free of divinities https://twitter.com/ARossP/status/989819610940747776 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
oh my. you can't just tell atheists about the atheism egregore. not without a mop handy, anyway.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
Still, the way Peterson uses language here is nonsensical. Atheist are still humans, and therfore "religious creatures" in the broad sense, but to say that you can't be an atheist because of that is stupid provocative semantics.
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I'm willing to forgive his stretching of conventional semantics here. Atheism in the 21st century is definitely a kind of theism. It's a reaction against theistic institutions and beliefs. It's not an alternative to theism. It should really be labeled anti-theism.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot
I think I know what you're getting at. Still I prefer terms like "ideology" to terms like "religion" or "theism" to describe the kind of political atheism that comes with a worldview ontology and morality. IMHO The distinction between supernatural and secular is worth preserving.
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Replying to @brewingsense @danlistensto
Maybe disagreement over whether political is actually sacral to participants? Consider eg Roman entanglement of the two Consider our rituals (State of the Union, elections, Supreme Court priesthood, etc)
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Replying to @eigenrobot @danlistensto
Yeah, In all of our "rituals" there is still no supernatural involved. I don't think it's an unclear distinction.
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let's refactor supernatural into non-material and then reevaluate all of our public rituals through that lens and think long and hard about what shared belief is and implies
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